Laszlo Webtop Preview

The Laszlo Webtop was announced recently by the Laszlo folks. It's a browser-based windowing framework along with a "server-based SOA framework that provides advanced data management APIs, manages authentication and single-sign on". Some of the use case examples might be:

Executive Dashboard

Financial Portal

Communcations Suite

Business Intelligence

Social Networking

One of the interesting things about Laszlo is the ability to compile as Flash or DHTML interfaces, which is planned for the OpenLaszlo 4.0 release (currently in beta). Laszlo Webtop will run on OpenLaszlo, but will be a commercial product.